Poetry for me is a way of living, it comes out of nowhere and I have to write it down. How I write, what I write, I decide. I am not asking you to be judgemental. I am gifted with the ability to see beyond the obvious.

Monday, December 01, 2008

I have not been online for the past one week. Two days my server was down. Then the Mumbai attacks happened. That has deeply saddened me. It was more of a war than a terrorist attack. For three days, our lives were on hold and spent in front of the television. It hardly mattered that I live in Delhi. Around 200 lives were lost, inluding our commandos. Has it ended? No. As long India has a soft approach towards terrorists, it is not going to change. The power that are, bicker amongst themselves, putting the blame on each other. Our intelligence failed. Need I say more? My heart is kind of dead.

How do we recover from it? I have no clue....

Writing/Reading does not give me any pleasure any more...

Yes, I thank you all for your love, concern and prayers via comments, emails and smses...

As you know, I come from the UK. I have known terrorism on my shores since the early 1970s, with bombings and murders right up to the mid 1990s. A brief reprieve followed, then came the 7/7 London bombings with over 50 dead and 700 injured. The next day people immediately returned to the tubes and buses. The one thing that must never be done in the face of terrorism is to give up, change your ways. You carry on, regardless, to prove to the terrorists that you WILL NOT CHANGE MY WAY OF LIFE!!!

The attack saddened me also, I feel that what we all need now is strong democratic government the best way to fight these kinds of people is through the ballot box.India is in a strong position to do this being the worlds biggest democracy!

I have not been visiting blogs much recently, but I wanted you to know I thought of you when I heard about the attacks. I knew it would be especially hard on you, you are so concerned and feel so much what others feel. We can't forget it, we can't shove it out of our minds, anymore than we can stop trying to figure out why it keeps repeating in the world so we can stop it.

About Me

For someone who teaches mathematics, poetry comes easy. There are so many aspects about myself that are unknown even to me. Poetry is way to explore myself. Where it will lead me, I don't know. I don't want to know. I thrive on the unknown.